How to configure and use Windows Live Writer for blogging

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Microsoft Windows Live Writer tool, is specifically designed for bloggers – both beginners and experienced, including support for WordPress and Blogger blogs. Read this tutorial to learn how to configure your blog in Live Writer and so to have a blogging tool that is easy to use and incorporate features useful to start in the wonderful world of blogging.

Presentation

First, one question comes to mind: why use a blogging software for blogging?

To this, several answers come to mind and are at least, justified:

This tool is very useful for blogging from desktop;

Handy when the Internet connection is slow or it does not have access to Internet;

Saves the articles on the hard drive of your PC for drafts;

Offers an alternate editor and provide assistance directed for insertion of photo galleries, maps, videos, etc. which often require an additional plugin in WordPress (TinyMCE for example);

We must nonetheless recognize that Microsoft has made serious efforts on this program through Live Writer and it may be easier to use for novice bloggers. Moreover, it is free.

Now click on Next. Wait a few minutes, the time to establish a connection to your blog.

Note: For self hosted WordPress (that means .org) users, who have chopped out detecting the platform type by any method (very good to do this for security purpose; we have already discussed in WordPress Weblogs Tips section of this website); they need to use “others” and then to put the url, username, password etc then WLW will ask to put the xml prc url. If you do not know what it is; simply open your blog’s homepage, view the source code and you will get it.

A dialog box will appear asking if you want to publish a temporary post in order to generate an overview of your items according to your design.

Finally, it remains for us to give a nickname to your site – although the official name is automatically detected. To confirm, click Finish:

Congratulations! You now have configured the software capable writing posts in a WYSWYG editor (What You See What You Get ) and featuring most of the functionality of conventional blogging. With that, then good blogging!

When one writes a blog on a regular basis, one of the main challenges is to produce relevant content, unique and interesting to the readers, all this on a regular basis. Here are some ideas about what to write on.